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" All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. "

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" Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. "

Saul Alinsky

Time

Life

Mother

" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "

" I'm not a big politics guy. "

" So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. "

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "

" Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. "

" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "

" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

" When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. "

" Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. "

" We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. "

" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

Christopher Hitchens

" Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. "

David Suzuki

Business

Politics

" I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. "

" I'm not really into politics, but if I had my own country, I would make sure all my people were educated and figuring out what they love to do, and focusing on that. "

" Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics. "

" The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. "

Will Rogers

Party

You

" Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. "

" Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. "

" Politics for me started in violence. "

Marine Le Pen

Violence

Started

" Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments. "

" Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. "

" Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' "

" No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. "

" Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. "

" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

" Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. "

" The buck stops here! "

" Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' "

Prince